A Friendly Reminder...

[temporus]

As you can see by my new icon (or maybe you can't?)  Today is backup your data day.   Okay, I just made that up.  You should be backing up your data everyday.  But I figured it was worth a reminder.  Especially all you writer types out there.  Make an extra backup copy of your work in progress today.

I've mentioned it before, but there can never be too many backups.  So back up your data to a different media.  Not just a backup file on your harddisk, but out to floppy (if you still have them) tape (egads, you use TAPE?) SD card, flash drive, external Hard Drvie.  NAS (if you've got one, you can get a cheap enough one.)  CD or save a copy of your file up on the internet at your favorite site. 

Yeah, you should do this every day.  But I'll send out some friendly reminders every now and then.

I backed up the novel, now clocking in at just shy of 77K words to one of my memory sticks.  I'll also backup again out to external disk tonight.

What's your preferred method for backups?

Comments

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

I use CDs or flash drives.

[temporus.livejournal.com]

CD's are nice and cheap. But they scratch much easier than people think, so keep them in their case. And remember, that they do go bad over time, even if you don't use them. (Though newer ones supposedly last considerably longer than older ones.)

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

I keep 'em in a case, in a waterproof safe :)

[slobbit.livejournal.com]

1. Time Machine. One per computer.

2. iDisk. I work off a local copy of my iDisk, so not only do I have local copy on the machine, I have a synced copy in my iDisk, and that copy syncs to the local instance on the other computer. And is backed up with Time Machine there.

3. Also, local copy on the iPhone, per the iDisk app.

Occasionally I also archive the contents of my iDisk. And copy the fiction folder to a flash drive.

[temporus.livejournal.com]

Sure, brag about all your awesome MAC tech. Make us windows dorks jealous. :P